Forlorn vs Misery - What's the difference?
forlorn | misery |
(obsolete)
Abandoned, left behind, deserted.
* (Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
Miserable, as when lonely being abandoned.
* (Oliver Goldsmith) (1730-1774)
* (1796-1859)
* (Mowbray Thomson) (1832-1917)
*{{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers)
, chapter=6, title= Great unhappiness; extreme pain of body or mind; wretchedness; distress; woe.
Cause of misery; calamity; misfortune.
(Extreme) poverty.
Greed; avarice.
As a verb forlorn
is past participle of lang=en.As an adjective forlorn
is abandoned, left behind, deserted.As a noun misery is
great unhappiness; extreme pain of body or mind; wretchedness; distress; woe.forlorn
English
Verb
(head)Adjective
(en-adj)- Of fortune and of hope at once forlorn .
- Some say that ravens foster forlorn children.
- For here forlorn and lost I tread.
- The condition of the besieged in the mean time was forlorn in the extreme.
- She cherished the forlorn hope that he was still living in captivity
A Cuckoo in the Nest, passage=Sophia broke down here. Even at this moment she was subconsciously comparing her rendering of the part of the forlorn bride with Miss Marie Lohr's.}}
Derived terms
* forlorn hope * forlornness * forlornlySynonyms
* * (miserable ) forsakenmisery
English
Noun
(miseries)- Ever since his wife left him you can see the misery on his face .